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Issue Details: First known date: 1859... 1859 Passages from the Life of a 'Lifer'
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First known date: 1859
Serialised by: The Moreton Bay Courier 1846 newspaper (193 issues)
Notes:
Serialised in the Morton Bay Courier, in five weekly instalments between 2 - 30 April 1859. One chapter was published each week, with the final two chapters appearing on 30 April.
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In Search of 'Jack Bushman' Raymond Evans , Bill Thorpe , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 32-48) 'This chapter deals with five connected matters: the life and times of Thomas Brooks; the veracity or otherwise of Passages as a source in reconstructing this life; an attempt to find who the author of Passages was (or at the very least who he wasn't); and the contexts for the public emergence of this "convict voice" in the 1850s. Finally there is the question of analysing such a narrative, as "distinct from the empirical quarrying" of it.' p.32
In Search of 'Jack Bushman' Raymond Evans , Bill Thorpe , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Chain Letters : Narrating Convict Lives 2001; (p. 32-48) 'This chapter deals with five connected matters: the life and times of Thomas Brooks; the veracity or otherwise of Passages as a source in reconstructing this life; an attempt to find who the author of Passages was (or at the very least who he wasn't); and the contexts for the public emergence of this "convict voice" in the 1850s. Finally there is the question of analysing such a narrative, as "distinct from the empirical quarrying" of it.' p.32
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Subjects:
  • 1790s
  • 1800-1899
Settings:
  • c
    England,
    c
    c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Moreton Bay, Brisbane - South East, Brisbane, Queensland,
  • Fortitude Valley - New Farm area, Brisbane - North East, Brisbane, Queensland,
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